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"Here's Johnny!"
Well that was disturbing! For the first time Achara and Steph watch Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980) starring Jack Nicholson (Batman (1989) & The Departed) as the terrifying main antagonist, Jack Torrance, along with Shelley Duval (Popeye (1980) & 3 Women) who plays as his disturbed wife, Wendy.
This movie also stars Danny Lloyd (Doctor Sleep) as Danny & Scatman Crothers (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) as Dick Hallorann.
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Here's some trivia that always confuses people. On the request of the parents of Danny Lloyd (Danny), they didn't want Danny to be aware that he was in a horror movie. So they somehow filmed the whole movie without Danny realizing he was in a horror movie instead of a family drama. Usually when Wendy is carrying Danny it was a doll hence why he was "limp". Danny didn't watch this movie until he was a teenager because his parents were protecting him from it.
that's some good parenting, and good economics.
That's an amazing feat! And great parenting. Especially considering the horror stories of how the lead actress was treated by the director.
That's kind of weird. Why even let him do it then? Seems like a bunch of unnecessary trouble to go through. Besides, he must've had some awareness he was in a horror film. I mean some of those scenes he was in aren't very relaxing. I know he was a little boy, but I don't get how he couldn't have known on some level.
.....meanwhile I saw "The Shining" when I was 10. About six months after the movie was released. 🤣
@@ChrisTheAspergerGuy
"Why even let him do it then?"
money.
"I mean some of those scenes he was in aren't very relaxing."
family movies often contain conflict that isnt very relaxing.
The legendary Scatman Crothers! (the actor that played Hallorann). If you want more of him and Nicholson, highly recommend "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"!
Another masterpiece of cinema with both of these legendary actors.
YES
Such a good movie
He was also in the movie Silver Streak and was the voice of Hong Kong Phooey (a cartoon dog that could do martial arts) and the voice of Jazz in the 1980s Transformers cartoon.
@@DP-hy4vh omg! Not Hong Kong Phooey! I forgot all about that. 😆 🤣
Fun Fact: Jack Nicholson was a firefighter and when they tried to use a prop door for him to smash with the axe he destroyed it immediately. So they went back to using regular doors for those scenes.
Yes, that why it was changed to the Overlook in Colorado. Originally, it was set in a Japanese style shoji, with paper wall dividers & doors, but Nicholson just tore through it too easily. Little known fact, The Karate Kid got his name from this early version of the script (Daniel-San [Danny])
@@fredfinkssource? I only knew about the prop door. When did this info about the hotel being Japanese-style come out?
@@Tochi68 Sounds suspicious.
@@SilentBob731 Oh its quite true, also it wasnt isolation that drove Jack mad, but repetitive 4 hour long kneeling tatami mat tea sessions.
@@Tochi68he's taking the piss, man
As a testament to Kubrick’s insane attention to detail, he had his secretary, a woman named Margaret Warrington, manually type out *500 pages* of “All work and no play makes Jack a full boy” using a different style/layout on every page.
He then had her do the same thing in several other languages for the foreign releases.
I don't think the other languages had the same phrase.
She better had paid great
The actors was also taught to speak all languages fluently and Kubric shot every scene in every different language.
I never pass up watching The Shining reaction videos!! As much as everyone gets scared or creeped out by the same scene, it's worth it to watch over and over.
My favorite horror movies to recommend are these...
The Omen (1976) and the two sequels are very good.
The Changeling (1980)
Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
The Changeling doesn't get near enough love.
I would add these to your list
The Entity (1982 )
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005 )
I agree with you all of those are fantastic choices... I LOVED The Changeling. it's so underrated.
I love the Omen and the Changeling!
Trivia for the day: That's wasn't snow. It was all salt. The hotel front was on a Soundstage and they brought in truckloads of salt. And notice the opening helicopter shot of the Overlook....there is no maze anywhere. You should watch some of the many documentaries about the odd things about this movie. You don't know how psychologically disturbing it is until you see how Kubrick plays with your mind with impossible architecture etc. Very subtle but disturbing.
Yes, thats what makes the horror of the overlook so much more depressing. Colorado county decided to keep the pass road open with tons of salt air dropped, but the plane went off course and it was deposited over the hotel and grounds. If it wasnt for the dodgy pilot, the roads would have been open and Jack's cabin fever cut short by partying skiers on holiday.
Ridley Scott also used The Shining's helicopter shots for Blade Runner. Kubrick always had a few thousand extra to share. haha Basically The Shining's intro is Balde Runner's outro in a way...depending on which ending you see
I think that's a big part of why the film is still being talked about today.
Its a film you can watch repeatedly and see something new each time...all of the so called continuity errors, the weird layout of the hotel, the colour shifts and reversals, it's all crafted meticulously to mess with your head on a not quite conscious level.
I love this movie in such a different way now. But watching people watch it for the first time I forget about the surface plot that you start off with. At the same time, it's this movie that made me start thinking differently about movies and cinema in general. A simple search of "why did the shining end like that" opened the world of subtext and hidden meanings in so many movies. Kubrick was the master of tying pop and underground cinema together.
The sequel of this Doctor Sleep is such a great sequel which is rare. It fleshes out the story more and is really really well acted and more disturbing in some ways.
That was a garbage movie. Just a shitty revenge story with some shallow characters who has x men powers. That movie shouldn't have been made, it was nothing but unnecessary violence against children.
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It's very easy to unintentionally/accidentally dislocate a toddlers shoulder like my mom did to me when I was young 😅 I was a nightmare as a kid...! My mom felt terrible..... The doctor assured her that it was more common than she thinks. I'm pretty sure I was just trying to avoid going to bed at that time. But it can happen when trying to protect your child too. For example, I used to always figure out how to unlock the door and run naked in the street lol...
Yeah my mom did that to my sister while lifting her up onto the porch. The child's own body weight can dislocate their shoulder. I never knew the story but when I got older and started having my own kids my mom would scream "Dont lift 'em by one arm!" and I was like, "chill, Mom", and she then told me the story.
Sounds like you needed to be 'corrected' . . .
@@patricktilton5377 oh I got corrected plenty of times...! 🤣
I always wondered how exactly Wendy explained this to the police when she got to town. She and Danny are uninjured but Jack is dead and has multiple injuries -including what could be considered a defensive wound on his hand. Not sure the "My husband was possessed by a Hotel" defense would fly!
She could just say Jack attacked them with the axe and she cut his hand with the knife in self-defense.
There was a deleted scene that took place in a hospital where Ullman tells Wendy that Jack’s body was never found.
Good movie, good cast. But as others have mentioned, poor Shelley Duvall, the way she was treated on the set.
Yeah... It's even visible behind the scenes...
Kubrick made her do the stairway scene with the bat 127 times. So abusive.
@@JeshuaSquirrel So he also made Jack and the crew and himself do the stairway scene 127 times or did she just do it on her own?
@@JeshuaSquirrelThats not abusive. That's the job she's in.
The opening helicopter footage was shot on Going-to-the-Sun Road and it's in Montana, not Colorado.
The real hotel used for exteriors is the Timberline Lodge and it's in Oregon.
The interiors are modeled on The Awahanee Lodge in Southern California.
The real hotel that inspired King to write the book is The Stanley Hotel and it IS in Colorado and it IS allegedly haunted.
The sequel is DOCTOR SLEEP and it has a Director's Cut. Absolutely must-see.
There was originally a 2-minute coda that showed Wendy in the hospital getting a visit from Mr. Ullmann. They talk about what happened (apparently the maze has been searched but Jack's body hasn't been found) and then when he leaves, he tosses Danny the same tennis ball that rolled at him earlier in the film. Kubrick recalled all the prints about a month after release and cut them all off and destroyed them. To date, there's no known surviving footage, but people are still on the lookout for it.
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown" - H.P. Lovecraft
"Never explain anything" - H.P. Lovecraft
LOL "like a horror movie trope" . This invented that trope.
9:27 Steph's disappointed face
19:38 Achara saying "your other arm is going to get dislocated." We need more reactions from these two!
The hotel that inspired Stephen King to write The Shining was the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. (It was used for the Overlook Hotel in the 1997 TV mini-series).
But nothing in the Kubrick film was shot in Colorado.
Nearly the entire film was shot on soundstages and facades in England! The Overlook exterior was modeled after the Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood in Oregon (about 52 miles from the Portland airport!). Some shots were filmed at the Timberline but none of the actors were ever there!
The opening shots of Jack driving to the hotel were shot in Montana. The mountain roads there were far more beautiful and photogenic than anything they found in Colorado.
So...none of this movie was done in Colorado!
The shots of the real Timberline Lodge in Colorado, that are in 'The Shining', plus all the opening sequence of Jack driving to the Overlook, and several shots of the Overlook showing winter approaching are all, by necessity of the Timberline's location, shot in Colorado.
The exterior of the Overlook, modelled on the Timberline lodge, were shot outdoors in England, using a location that has been seen in many movies.
In 'Doctor Who: Dalek Invasion of Earth, 2150 AD', the 'mine' set has a slope in the right-hand background that leads up to the edge of a reservoir, creating a horizon line, this is the same slope that Wendy and Danny travel up when escaping the Overlook at the end of The Shining.
This film studio also has a London street set that has appeared in many movies and TV series (the Sherlock Holmes series starring Jeremy Brett, for example), and this area was also re-dressed as Gotham City for the first Tim Burton Batman film.
@@stevetheduck1425 the Timberline Lodge is in Oregon. I've stayed there.
The "Highway to the Sun" in the driving scenes were in Montana.
Nothing was shot in Colorado.
@@stevetheduck1425 The opening scene of Jack driving to the Overlook is actually Going to the Sun Road in Glacier National Park in Montana. I have driven that exact same road.
Tuesday scares everyone. We all shine on...
This is one of my top 5 favorite movies ever. Definitely my fav horror movie to date. It's just a masterpiece.
The opening mountain shots were taken at Glacier National Park in Montana.
The movie interiors were shot in a soundstage in England, the exterior was filmed in Oregon at Timberline Lodge.The interior was basically inspired by the Ahwahnee hotel in Yosemite National Park.
Loving the Achara and Stef reaction combo, ESPECIALLY horror movies, really great reaction. Hope you guys react to Doctor Sleep. Different from this movie, but it was interesting. Anyway, hope to see more reactions from both of you!
When I watched this movie for the first time actually I found it funny because previously I watched that Simpsons treehouse of horror episode as a kid and then I was able to compare it almost frame by frame and it's almost the same, so the bits that were supposed to scare me turned out to be really funny thanks to the Simpsons..
No beer and no TV makes homer go.. but I don't know the rest.. 😂😂😂
Yeah girls, is doctor sleep
"Go crazy?"
"DON'T MIND IF I DO!!"
something something.
"That's strange. Usually the blood gets off on the second floor."
'The Shinning'...
'Don't you mean the Shining?'
'no...we don't wanna get sued😁'
Bro Stanley Kubrick was a crazy genius
Yay! ❤ If you like Ewan McGregor and Rebecca Ferguson, I suggest "Doctor Sleep" in which Ewan is and adult Danny.
Kubrick purposefully filmed scenes in such a way that weren't physically possible. He gives viewers a rough layout of the interconnected hallways and where they lead, then filmed all of it in different locations that the viewers knew subconsciously shouldn't be there. Hallways that should turn one way now turn the other, rooms that should be located in a certain space now have hallways going straight through them as if the room didn't exist, etc. This subconsciously creates a sense of disorientation that the characters are also feeling. There's a documentary called "Room 237" that covers some of that.
That is like the best reaction to the Twins in the Hall (and Danny) that I have ever seen in nearly 200 watches since 1981. Kudos to you 2.😃
I was pretty much traumatized by the scene when I first saw it as a child.
You have watched The Shimimg nearly 200 times? 😮
I have watched it more tham 5 times so far. Always something new to discover
The bartender was in the movie " Blade Runner " 🤙
I have never seen the Shining but know about it. I finally get to watch it with yall!
You girls crushed this, super entertaining reaction for my favorite horror film.
The opening scenes are filmed along the Columbia Gorge, on the Washington, Oregon border. The hotel itself is on Mt. Hood, in Oregon. The inside, I believe was filmed in England. And, fun fact... Much of the snow used in the maze scene was fake snow, borrowed from the Star Wars filming of the Empire Strikes Back.
I've heard you both mention "End Credit Scenes" in a few different movies I've watched with you so far. These scenes started in the mid/late 1960s and were VERY few and far in between. It didn't start becoming a popular part of movies until the 2000s. Just wanted to give you a heads up that the majority of the older movies that you are watching will not have them :-)
15:24 the camera is being operated by the inventor of the steadicam! It's a device that uses weights to keep the camera still. This movie is famous for being the first major instance of its use. It's a landmark in cinema technique.
This was the first movie that used a Steady-Cam. That's why Danny's riding is so smooth.
Indoor portions shot in Colorado. Outdoor shots of the hotel were done near Mt. Hood in Oregon, at the Timberline Lodge.
The shining is a classic
When I was a child I could tell what had happened to my father during his day. It scared the hell out of my mother and she discouraged my stories. I lost the power.
The photo where Jack Nicholson is in, he is holding his hands Right one up Left one down, is As Above So Below.
The Shining was one of the first films to utilize what was then a new innovation in film: the Steadicam.
You find out in the book "Tony" is his own future self communicating from across time.
The hotel that this movie is based off of is the Stanley Hotel in Colorado. The book is based off the hotel. I toured the hotel and it is very eerie. It gets really cold suddenly and randomly in parts of the hotel. The room that Stephen King stayed in, 217, was cold right outside the door, then immediately got warm. If I’m correct, Stephen King claimed he would never speak about what happened in room 217.
Great reaction to a classic! This movie was mostly shot in the UK on rebuilt sets. The exterior of the Timberline Lodge in Mt. Hood ,Oregon was used for the hotel., and the "helicopter shot" you spoke of in the opening shot was Wild Goose Island in Glacier National Park , Montana. The actual story for The Shining was inspired by a hotel in Colorodo, The Stanley Hotel. The novel and movie were definately both set in Colorodo though. If you can find the 1990s miniseries of The Shining give it a go, as it was filmed at The Stanley Hotel in CO. Also check out the movie "Dr. Sleep" , as it is a sequel to The Shining. Ewan MacGregor plays a grown up Danny🙂
The sisters weren't named in the novel, but one source says they were referred to as Alexa and Alexie in this version.
If you're researching things about this movie, there are some interesting videos about various impossibilities in the layout of the hotel and the hedge maze.
Also, any scenes or shots in this movie which remind you of something else, probably the other movie got it from here. 🙂 (I just watched M3GAN and there are a couple of things in there which may be inspired by this movie. Maybe.)
Its possible but hard to fathom, like an escher drawing. Apparently the plans where drawn up on paper derived from trees from an italian burial ground.
Did you notice Jack quickly glancing into the camera/at you the audience now and again breaking the fourth wall? It's quick and subtle but it's there. Make of it what you will... ;)
He did that to threaten the audience.
That is the funniest response to the Danny and Jack bedroom scene.
The Shining is absolutely the best horror movie of all time. Most of the rooms are not physically possible, parts of furniture come and go frame after frame, all three of characters have mental problems. Their acting is outstanding
*"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."*
The sequel "Doctor Sleep" (2019) is definitely worth watching. It stars Ewan McGregor as the adult Danny Torrance.
They should have just paid and used the actual Danny Lloyd. If he could act that good at age 5, he could pull it off as an adult.
Also, an interesting rabbit hole is that Room 237 was based on the moon being 237 miles from the Earth, with the carpet pattern and Danny's toy trucks mimicking the launch while Danny wore a NASA sweater, and that Kubrick helped fake the moon landing and went a little crazy because of his involvement with the shadow government. And after Kubrick further revealed them with "Eyes Wide Shut," he was put down.
Yes, its quite clear. Also, if you filter out the soundtrack and play it backwards in 3/4 time, it plots out the coordinates fof the pyramids and the prophecy for the 9/11 attacks. Thats why they reckon 9/11 was blown up, because it eliminated any risk of the public finding out about the faked moon landing, area 51, and hillary clinton being Ky'Shekk, lizard queen of the outer realms.
erm...yeah, sure. Maybe the tin-foil hat a little too tight....?!
@@swanvictor887 I started to watch that documentary when i was bored a few years ago. It was like the dumbest alien ghost pyramid documentaries on the history/ learning channel or whatever, but made by pretentious film nuts. I lasted about 10min, and that was 10 minutes too long. Horrid shite
@@fredfinks I also find these theories about the 'faked moon landing' to be incredibly offensive to the nearly half-a-million people involved in that program. Have you noticed that the proponents of such nutty theories are always from one end of the intelligence spectrum....!
@@swanvictor887 I like the one where you have to organise redundant secret invisible demolition teams & mini nukes to bring down buildings that are going to have fully fueled 737s crash into them. Its like they sit around and brainstorm ways to make it more convoluted.
RE the moon, we should probably pity them, a pinnacle of human project management & engineering., so awesome & beautiful, and they cant comprehend it.
Love the one-inch chain-smoking ash.
The sequel is called Doctor Sleep (2019) and its very good. Its directed by Mike Flanagan, the guy that did The Haunting of Hill House.
You guys HAVE to watch A FEW GOOD MEN! It's Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise at their finest!!
I’m so excited!!!!!!!!!!! One of my favorite movies
“ Tony “ was actually Danny’s middle name in the book. He didn’t understand his shine so he called it his imaginary friend, Tony. Try to watch Doctor Sleep. It’s an excellent sequel!
Tony is future Danny trying to warn himself. This is made more clear in the terrible tv adaptation.
The sequel is, "Dr. Sleep." No spoilers, of course, but you already know, Danny lived. It is worth a watch.
Try this one on...
Throughout the film, Jack Nicholson's infamous Joker eyebrow appears just once!
During the drive to the hotel while Cannibalism is discussed.
Now...FF to The Dark Knight when Heath Ledger delivered his iconic speech about "civilized people" and how "... they'll EAT each other!".
More??
The opening shot in the waterway and closing in on the small isle... imagine the camera is Batman on his batpod, the lone isle is Ledger's Joker shouting "Hit me!!", and the waterway is a downtown Gotham street littered with vehicles, such as an upturned semi and police copter wreckage.
Seriously, compare the two scenes...
The twins do horror conventions to this day
Carpet in the hallway (20:52) is the same carpet from Toy Story outside Sid's room.
Great reaction. I like hopping from channel to channel seeing people react to movies I like. Another Stephen King movie, mostly shot in the snow, with people with the shine ability is Dreamcatcher. Morgan Freeman, and Ron Sizemore are in it. Its pretty weird though.
Scatman Crothers.....a true talent from the past.
The real culture war is between people who leave THE SHINING scrambling for more information and explanations via the Internet, the King novel and DOCTOR SLEEP... and those who are satisfied with the Kubrick film as a singular, trippy, mystical experience, no answers necessary. The prosaic vs the poetic.
Wow! The girl on the right really look like a young Elizabeth Peña. 🤩 Actually, you both look like movie stars. Great reaction to a great film! Speaking of Peña. You should watch "Jacob's Ladder". A really dark and interesting film.
The guy that played the chef also sang "everybody wants to be a cat" in the Aristocats.
The hotel feeds on people with the shining. Controls and convinces them to kill people on the grounds.
Good Insightful and intelligent reaction to a complex classic film.
Although I don't often subscribe to his themes, I do recognize Kubrick as a great filmmaker, and "The Shining" (TS) is certainly a masterpiece of cinema. I like it very much even though I'm not a fan of Stephen King or his books. This must be due solely to Kubrick. Well, I also give credit to the actors and the production crew, too. As great as Nicholson and Duvall were in the film, that little boy, Danny Lloyd, really made the movie for me. I think he was five when he started filming TS. For a child that age, he was just outstanding. He himself came up with the finger puppet for Tony, his alter ego. Kudos, also, to Philip Stone and Joe Turkel for being quietly sinister and menacing. I don't want to forget good-guy Scatman Crothers, either. Well-done Scatman. Then there's the Overlook. Not only is it alive, but it is the personification of evil.
TS has all the Kubrick touches. All those long hallway and hedge maze shots are one-point-perspective. That's a Kubrick trademark. Also, don't some of those nighttime hedge maze shots remind you of HAL's "eye" in 2001 a bit? They do me. Another characteristic of Kubrick is his focus on intense person-to-person interactions. Yeah, TS has just a little bit of that. Those long tracking-shots as people move about the hotel are another Kubrick trait. The musical score as an integral part of the narrative of TS is also textbook Kubrick. Kubrick was a perfectionist, and that is reflected in his films. For example, background is as significant as foreground. Why does Jack's typewriter change color? Is it because Jack has been transformed? Oh, "All work and no play" goes back to at least 1659. It didn't originate with TS although it certainly fits. Why do bits of the hotel, like the furniture, for example, appear, disappear or move about? Is it because the hotel is alive? The answer is yes by the way. It's definitely not due to continuity problems. Finally, Kubrick always forces the viewer to think about and dissect his films. That certainly happens in TS. As a result, we and Kubrick share in a common creative impulse when watching TS. The film becomes a living thing.
Here are a few of the other things I've noticed about TS. The film is replete with mirrors. They're everywhere. Watch how they affect Jack. Are they how the hotel projects its power? A portal of sorts? Do they also absorb power? Are they its eyes as well? Likewise, there are mazes everywhere. There's the obvious hedge maze, but the hotel itself is a maze, and so is the hallway carpet. Early on, Wendy remarks on the need for breadcrumbs, a reference to Hansel and Gretel and the maze-like quality of the hotel. TS is a variation of Theseus and the Minotaur with Danny as Theseus, Tony as Ariadne etc. Wendy also says the hotel is like a ghostship. The hotel feeds off Danny and Jack's shining power and gets more powerful as time passes. The hotel wants Danny dead so it can absorb him and his power. Did you notice all the knives pointed at Danny's head on several occasions in the film? When Hallorann and Danny are talking in the kitchen bits of the conversation were telepathic. Numbers seem to come up a lot in the film. For example, Danny wears a shirt with 42 on the sleeve, the tv with no power cord is showing "Summer of 42," and room 237 is 2x3x7=42. I think Kubrick's wife said "Summer of 42" was one of his favourite movies along with "The Bank Dick." The latter is a great movie with W. C. Fields. I love it when Danny asks Jack if he feels bad. That can be taken two ways as in do you feel evil or do you feel unwell. And, of course, Jack repeats the girls saying forever and ever, meaning I want to join with the hotel in death. Jack does, of course, sell his soul for a drink. Is that why Lloyd the bartender won't take his money? Jack's already paid in-full? The people and things Danny and Jack see are real, but only people with shining can see them initially. On the table next to the typewriter, there's an album with newspaper clippings. It's from those clippings that Jack recognizes Grady. When Jack returns to the ballroom where the 1920s party is going on, a woman walks by him with a bloody handprint on her backside. This is about the time the advocaat is spilled on him. Jack also wipes some advocaat on Grady's back. In the bathroom scene, it's clear Grady's girls also had "the shine" and wanted to destroy the hotel, but they were killed instead and absorbed. Grady himself, probably like Jack, also had "the shine." In the conversation between Jack and Grady, Grady switches between Grady and the entity of the hotel. Jack may also switch with the "caretaker." When Jack and Wendy are being shown their apartment, Jack eyes the two departing young ladies. A sign of his lechery? Ditto the girlie magazine he's reading in the lobby early on. He definitely has a wandering eye. Even early on, he doesn't seem to hold Wendy in high regard. When Jack enters room 237, the carpet there is obviously suggestive of the sex act. Very phallic etc. Sex, in one way or other, features in many Kubrick films. Room 237 is the heart of the hotel. The nude woman represents the hotel seducing Jack. The heartbeat we hear is the hotel's and signals the hotel's malevolent activity and increasing power. We hear it overtly later in the film but weakly earlier when Danny is riding the trike on/off the carpet and when Jack is bouncing the ball. The high-pitched tone indicates "shining" is happening. So, Jack clearly shines, too. He's one of those who doesn't realize he has it. Jack several times in the film exhibits the Kubrick glare or stare, a shot of a man glowering up at the camera from beneath lowered brows, an indicator of danger or madness. You see it in "Full Metal Jacket." When Jack goes on his rant about his obligations to the hotel before Wendy conks him, he's not talking about Ullmann and co. He's talking about "the hotel," the thing that's alive. That's what he's made the contract and sold his soul to. Remember Lloyd the bartender's ominous hotel remarks about the "house." REDRUM is MURDER backwards, and it signifies anti-murder. It's a totem that protects against murder. That's why Danny writes it on the bathroom door. Jack can batter the door, but he won't get in. Danny is also warning Wendy and arming her as a result of his REDRUM recital. The photos are part of the hotel like the typewriter and furniture. When Jack dies, he's absorbed by the hotel and winds up in the 1920s photo. Towards the end, the hotel's evil spirit, the caretaker, may have abandoned Jack to die in the maze. He did fail in his task. That ball in the photo was the same one where the advocaat was spilled. So, he was there in 1921 and he wasn't. Kubrick deleted a final scene from TS. Wendy was in hospital and Ullman was visiting. He told her all was normal (except for Hallorann, I suppose) at the hotel. No Jack. At least, I think that's what I read once. Might be wrong about that.
I've watched several reactions to TS, and I'm amazed at some of the observations. Got some beefs. A lot of people don't make a connection between Danny's first vision of the blood elevator, which signifies all the death at the hotel, and his passing out. They disassociate these two events when clearly they go together as the image of Danny's horrified face shows. From the get-go, it's clear Danny can see past events and future events. He knows Jack got the job and is going to call Wendy. He knows he doesn't want them to go to the hotel. He knows the hotel signifies danger. Why don't people notice that Danny's shirt and jumper are torn when he come to the Colorado Lounge after being strangled? Danny's clearly in shock, too. When Danny is foaming at the mouth and Hallorann is having his mini-fit, Danny is clearly communicating with Hallorann there is danger, come and help. How can Wendy be so sound asleep before Danny wakes her? Come on, the poor woman has been on edge for weeks. She hasn't been sleeping well. Now that she's locked crazy Jack up, she literally passes out, thinking they're safe. After Danny slides down from the bathroom window, why are people surprised he comes back into the hotel? It's freakin' cold outside. Do you live at the equator or something? After Jack kills Hallorann and Danny screams, why are people surprised when Danny bolts his hiding place? It's not a hiding place anymore, Jack knows where he is. Anyway, the hotel will lead him to Danny. Danny runs outside because he's actually luring Jack into the maze to meet his fate.
Danny is the hero of TS, he's Theseus, who killed the monster in the maze.
interesting what you said about the camera being steady.. the Steadicam had just been developed and kubrick used in the movie. it was the first time most people had seen the effect and it blew people's minds. (also the oscar should have gone to jack nicholson's eyebrows)
Your first instinct of Jack being subsumed by the hotel and becoming a ghost is correct. Just like Mr. Grady. He was the Caretaker but now is a waiter for the ghost. Just as Jack will be something else and a new caretaker will become “always the caretaker”
Two hotels inspired the Overlook, one for the exterior and one for the interior, however, apart from scenic views at the beginning, the entire movie was filmed in London UK.
The hotel location is in Washington. My sister and her husband took a drive up there once
Filmed in Oregon, Montana, and Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England.
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The interior of the hotel and the maze was shot on a sound stage at elstree studios just outside london in Herefordshire. The exterior was shot at Timberline lodge, north Oregon. Danny Lloyd became associate professor at the department of biology at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College in Elizabethtown, Kentucky and only came back to acting with a small part in Doctor sleep ( 2019 )
Shortly after playing Danny Torrance in THE SHiNiNG, Danny Lloyd portrayed a young G. Gordon Liddy in a movie based on Liddy's autobiography "WILL" -- which is available on UA-cam for free, with Robert Conrad (of WILD WILD WEST fame) as the adult Liddy. I recently watched it, and it's not half bad.
That was fun! Very astute observations too - I've seen this movie many times, and you picked up on a lot of underlying themes. Not everyone does.
I just reacted to this. Seriously considering reading the book. I watched the documentary for Room 237. It helped it put an extra layer on it.
Movie was filmed 99% on a set in The UK the maze is actually all shot indoors.
Jack Nickolson (sic) is the greatest actor, ever.
I love at about 12:40 in this video and i thought :” oh yeah Kubrick got them. He is the master. Just sound editing was enough to suck you in. 16:58
1981-1982 The shinning / The thing / Blade runner / Raiders of the lost ark / ET and Rocky 3 !
Great movie
The opening scene was filmed on the "Going to the sun" road in Glacier National Park in Montana.
3:16 that's Carl Jung's "Red Book."
beginning shot is glacier national park in Montana
So, I’m literally in a resort hotel in room 237 right now. I made a joke about it to a barista here this morning, and she had never seen The Shining so she didn’t get it.
Yeah, I feel more weird about it watching this…
Great reaction💯Another good flick to checkout...Taxi Driver-1976
If you want explanation and resolution, Kubrick isn't the director for you ! He loves to leave the meaning of his movies open to interpretation. I once had the opportunity to ask him what the end of '2001: A Space Odyssey' means ! 'Dr Sleep' will certainly give you a more rounded picture but that's why it's not as a good as this IMHO. Still worth watching, but not the masterpiece that 'The Shining' is. And if you really want to see how wild the thoughts of different people can be watching the same film, seek out the feature length documentary - Room 237. It's mad !
Watch "DOCTOR SLEEP" It is thee sequel to Shining. Ewan Mcgregor plays this same grown up kid in that.
Now you guys can watch Ready Player One.
I really liked this reaction. You should react to The Shining sequel, Doctor Sleep. It was great. Keep up the honest and entertaining reactions. Love you guys!
The steadiness of the tricycle scenes is due to the THEN new “ steadicam” camera. And Kubrick hired the man who invented it to shoot those scenes.
And also the movie was referenced in Real Player One
5:39 I still can’t see this scene without thinking of The Simpsons Treehouse Of Horror parody of The Shining when Mr Burns says “That’s weird, the blood normally gets of on the 3rd floor”.🤣🤣🤣🤣
Or Homer saying “Urge to kill RISING!!”🤣🤣🤣🤣
Directors Cut Doctor Sleep next
Idk if anybody said it yet but the hotel was built on a native burial ground. So the hotel itself was cursed and the people in that picture are people that ended up dying horribly either in that room or around the hotel.
About the bear scene at the end: Kubrick left three clues for us to infer what that scene meant.
#1 - The first time we see Danny talking to Tony we are looking down the hallway at him. We can’t see his face but can only see his body over the sink. The position of Danny’s body mirror the bear’s body over the bed, and we cannot see the bear's head.
#2 - After Danny’s blackout he is in his undies on his bed and we can see a bear pillow on the bed. Why would he be in his undies unless Kubrick was trying to get us to clue in on something with the bear pillow.
#3 - When Jack is awaiting his interview he is sitting in a chair in the lobby while reading a magazine. It’s a Playgirl magazine.
All this leads us to infer Jack was not only physically abusing Danny but molesting him as well. This psychological trauma cause Danny to start talking to Tony.
When Wendy sees the bear and his friend on the bed this is supposed to tell Wendy what was going on.
You’ve been brainwashed by Rob Ager’s conspiracy theories. You basically copied and pasted everything he said about it.
The bear suit scene happens because of a homosexual guy in Stephen King’s novel that dresses up as a “furry” (in the novel it’s a dog suit.) Nothing more to look into.
"Doctor Sleep" is a story picking up from The Shining, many years later. Please review the movie, it is very creative.
I would leave him alone wnd go they say.... Well there is a snowstorm and Ullman said that there could be 20 feet of snow in Winter so they're all stuck there till spring.
You ladies should check out Doctor Sleep, the sequel that takes place when Danny is an adult. It'll fill in some of the questions you two had! Not all, but some! For more answers, you should read the book or even watch the made for tv adaptation of The Shining --- it's not as good BUT Stephen King worked on it so it's more inline with his original story than Kuberick's - who took it and spun his also fantastic story.
1. Joe Turkel/Lloyd plays Tyrell in the original "Bladerunner" 😇
2. "Here's Johnny" was adlib by Nickelson.
3. It took 117 takes for Jack to chop through the door. He used his voluntary firefighting skills to get through all the takes.
4. The reason King didn't like this adaptation of the movie is because he didn't like the changes Kubrick made. This thing was remade just for King and although the remake was more in line with the book IMVHO it wasn't as good at this one.
5. Two of the changes he didn't like were Jack's decent into madness was too rapid, and Wendy wasn't such a patsy in the book.
6. Shelley Duval said making this film was the worst thing she ever experienced in her life. She was abused on and off camera".
7. Jack Nicholson and Scatman worked together in "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest".
8. The real villain here is the hotel itself.
9. Watch Dr. Sleep. Danny is an adult and many of the loose ends will be cleared up.
I love you both! Great reaction!
The Shinning has been and always shall be my go to stuck in a blizzard movie.
Watch the sequel Doctor Sleep!!!! Please 😊
I met the actor that plays Danny at comic con